John Jackson Miller 
With the Republican National Convention just ended in Florida, it recalls a couple of trivial notes relating to comics: two previous RNCs resulted in venue and date juggling for the San Diego Comic-Con, which later evolved into Comic-Con International. And one of the political conventions ultimately wasn’t even held in San Diego! 1996 saw a … Read more
(REVISED to reflect the separate entry for the Chromium Edition) The full data from Diamond Comic Distributors for July is out, and The Comics Chronicles estimates that the distributor shipped more than 335,000 $3.99 copies of Walking Dead #100 to North American comics shops in July. It’s the highest one-month total for a comic book … Read more
Coinciding with the release of the July jobs report in the United States, Diamond Comic Distributors released its comics sales report for the month — and again, it depicts a comics market in the midst of a robust recovery. Comic book stores ordered approximately $40 million in comic books and graphic novels in the month, … Read more
With San Diego in the rear-view mirror, I posted some thoughts on the Comichron Twitter feed today that I think bear repeating here. I have seen some upbeat San Diego conventions (this was one) and some downright gloomy ones; sometimes they capture the spirit of the year and sometimes they don’t. The same is true … Read more
All eyes in the comics industry are turning to California and Comic-Con International, which is starting in a little more than 48 hours; I’ll be heading there myself. (My own signing schedule is here). But first, some important business, as Diamond Comic Distributors has released the full data for comics-shop sales for June 2012. The … Read more
The Diamond Comic Distributors sales report for the middle of the comics year always hits right before Comic Con International: San Diego, which itself is about the future of the business; we see where we’ve been right before we see where we’re going. Last year, the industry arrived in San Diego with the first half … Read more